Fine, look at my "naked" body — just keep me safe: I'd take a "strip-search" scan over being blown out of the sky any day, says Froma Harrop in The Seattle Times, and I imagine I'm not alone. Besides, an anonymous "naked" once-over beats the screening alternative: "having someone pat you up and down is a lot more personal than letting an officer in another room who can't see your face take a quick look at a picture.""The naked truth about whole-body imaging"

The privacy risks are too great: The machines offer no guarantee for stopping determined terrorists, says Lillie Coney of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, as quoted by NPR. So why make the enormous privacy "tradeoff" with a technology "that will literally strip away human dignity"? Also, keep in mind there's nothing to prevent an image of your naked body "from being retained" by government employees, "even when they say" that won't happen."New airport screening described as 'intrusive'"

Scan passengers — but be selective: Our focus on "keeping bad things — as opposed to bad people — off of airplanes" highlights a "flawed philosophy," says Robert Poole in Reason. Not every air passenger is equally likely to be a terrorist, and those deemed "higher risk" are the ones who should be made to undergo full-body scans. And now that terrorists are "hiding explosives in their underwear and body cavities, we have no alternative.""Will we get serious about aviation security?"

The scanners are as necessary as a metal detectors: Some opponents argue scanners are a backward-looking strategy and the terrorists will just "think of something else," says Allahpundit in Hot Air. That might be true — "but how does [it] justify not doing anything about something they’ve already thought of?" Just because "jihadis have already thought of smuggling guns and knives onto planes" doesn't mean we should ditch metal detectors."JetBlue announces dopey new TSA regulations"